The most evident trend in local theater this year has been the proliferation of shared productions between companies, and it's on full display right now, with the Arvada Center's four-star p…
Could you pass the U.S. citizenship exam? Do you know the first three words of the Constitution? Or the five freedoms guaranteed by the First Amendment?
Review: Done well, "To Kill a Mockingbird" should not just move audiences. It should move lumps to their throats, coax tears from their eyes and turn their stomachs. The Denver Center The…
Done well, "To Kill a Mockingbird" should not just move audiences. It should move lumps to their throats, coax tears from their eyes and turn their stomachs.
Boulder's Dinner Theatre's first-ever world premiere is proof of just how hard it is to create a new American musical that fires on all cylinders right off the showroom floor. It's very, ver…
Review: You could never re-create the zeitgeist that made "Hair" the most revered — and feared — musical of its generation. But through 2011 eyes, it is a welcome celebration of…
Theater review: The Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center's season-opening "Assassins" should reassure anyone that new producing artistic director Scott RC Levy will not shy from controversial …
Theater review: There are plenty of reasons to make the drive to see "Driving Miss Daisy" at the Lake Dillon Theatre, 70 miles west of Denver. Starting with Denver Center Theatre Company ve…
In 1971, Denver police would not let the sunshine in. Or anything else to do with the pro-love, anti-war rock musical "Hair." The vice bureau invoked a seldom-used law banning public nudity,…
Q&A: Tripp Fountain is an Aquarian, natch. But he really did not make up that name just because it happens to be the perfect moniker for anyone performing in the 1968 American hippie tribal…
The Denver Center Theatre Company is talking openly about race in America — on and off the stage. "To Kill a Mockingbird" opens next week. On Saturday, an all-day forum will attempt a …
Theater eview: Anyone with a passing interest in Mary Shelley has heard the story of how created "Frankenstein" as part of a party-game challenge. But Buntport takes more of a fever-dream a…
Review: The Pulitzer-Prize winning "Next to Normal" rewrote all the rules for musical theater. Now it's rewriting the rules for dinner theater. Rating: *** 1/2 stars
Part of the historic Oriental Theater ceiling collapsed onto the 84-year-old stage late Friday night, just seconds after Doug Kershaw and his band cleared the playing area. Witnesses were ca…
There is often a presumption that larger theaters means larger budgets, larger production values and, therefore, larger audience satisfaction. But "The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee…
Moore: Paragon Theatre Company is about to move into its fifth home in 11 years — and co-founder Warren Sherrill promises, "We are going to stay there." That and other news of the week.
Whoever said "Never let them see you sweat" wasn't trying to sell theater tickets.
Theater review: Drew Cortese's pants are on fire. So is Matt Zambrano's precocious comic timing in "The Liar," the Denver Center Theatre Company's playful and surprisingly fun season-openin…
Review: The great American musical "Ragtime" is a paean to what this country was and yet could be — which makes it so discombobulating seeing it now, when economic pessimism hangs ove…
Denver loses another theater space when the Vintage Theatre is soon bounced from its home at 17th Avenue and Vine Street, ending a 28-year tradition of live theater in the neighborhood and s…
There are two solid reasons for theatergoers to check out the Creede Repertory Theatre's visiting production of "Unnecessary Farce" at the Lone Tree Arts Center.
Q&A: Daters, Amy Roeder feels your pain. The former Denverite is a member of the famed Chicago comedy factory that's taking up residence at the Galleria Theatre for the fourth time with "Lo…
Review: "Justin Bieber Meets Al Qaeda," easily the most provocative title of the fall theater season, is the only original local theatrical response to the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attac…
Review: "Completely Hollywood (Abridged)" is some seriously stupid stuff. Good thing the Avenue Theater has put together three stupidly funny actors to perform it. Rating: ***
Any question about whether pop music had an appropriate place in how Denver would mark the 10th anniversary of the 2001 attacks was answered long before the Beach Boys took the stage for Sun…